sombre
Example Sentences
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Twelve months ago the mood around Ulster was much more sombre than it has been in recent months.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
It's a sombre end to our time together.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
In the Soviet Union, sombre music was often broadcast when leaders fell ill or died.
From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026
Laschet added, in a sombre opening speech: "If Europe is not competitive economically it will not, in the long-term, have the financial basis, the technological basis, the industrial basis to guarantee its security."
From Barron's • Jan. 17, 2026
Now he was one small soldier in a city preparing for a great assault, clad in the proud but sombre manner of the Tower of Guard.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
